AI and Societal Robustness Conference
December 12th, 2025
Jesus College, Cambridge
Mission
As AI systems become increasingly integrated into critical infrastructure and key industries, questions of control, oversight, and institutional safeguarding become paramount.
This one-day conference brings together AI safety and security researchers, policymakers, and other institutional stakeholders. Through technical and policy-oriented talks, collaborative workshops, and 1:1s, we will investigate emerging challenges at the intersection of geopolitics, cybersecurity, societal impacts research, and institutional governance in the era of advanced AI systems.
Focus Areas
⛓️💥 AI security
🔒 Cybersecurity
📈 Societal and economic impacts of AI
🛡️ Use-cases of AI that improve societal resilience
🤖 AI agency
⚙️ Interactive learning (workshops)
Key Speakers
Rebecca Anselmetti, UK AISI
Jamie Bernardi, UK AISI
Dewi Erwan, BlueDot Impact
Edward Kembery, Safe AI Forum
Ben Harack, University of Oxford
Marko Tešić, DSIT
Andrew Sutton, University of Oxford
Workshops and Panel
🎯 Workshop: Theory of Change in AI Safety Careers and Research
🚀 Workshop: Founding an AI Safety Organisation
💡Workshop: Using Inspect Software for AI Safety Research
⚔️ Panel: How do powerful AI systems affect the offence/defence balance in cybersecurity?
Poster Session
The conference will have a poster session for researchers to present their work. Submit your abstracts of ~300 words below. Research should cover a technical, policy, or societal question in one of the listed conference topics. We welcome submissions from novel research, ongoing (incomplete) projects, drafts currently under review at other venues, as well as recently published results. Submissions will be reviewed by the UK AI Forum organising committee.
Key dates (all 23:59 GMT )
15 November – Abstract deadline
20 November – Acceptance notifications
10 December – Final poster PDF due
Poster abstract submissions are now closed.
Posters will be in a dedicated room during the conference. We ask researchers to spend at least 30 minutes at their poster during the day (a timeslot will be assigned). Accepted poster presenters will automatically also be accepted to the conference.